William McManus

William Telemachus McManus (* 1780 in Brunswick , New York , † January 18, 1835 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1825 and 1827 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Telemachus McManus was born and raised in Brunswick during the War of Independence . He received a scientific education. Then he studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1817 and then began practicing in Troy . Between 1815 and 1818 he served as a guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Rensselaer County and between 1818 and 1821 as a district attorney. Politically, he belonged to the Adams faction .

In the 1824 congressional elections for the 19th Congress , McManus was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth electoral district of New York , where he succeeded James L. Hogeboom on March 4, 1825 . Since he on a run again in 1826 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1827 Congress of.

After his time at Congress, he went back to his practice as a lawyer. In 1832 he was active as a soil speculator. In this regard, he was one of the co-founders of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company . In 1833 he went with his son Robert and daughter Jane as well as a group of German settlers to Texas , which was then still part of Mexico . The project failed when the German settlers refused to go to Matagorda . He then returned to Brunswick with his daughter in 1834, where he died soon after on January 18, 1835. His son Robert stayed in Texas and became a wealthy planter.

family

William Telemachus McManus was the son of Mary (1751-1834) and Hugh McManus (1747-1826). He married Catharina Wheeler Coons (1784–1839), daughter of Elizabeth Wheeler and Philip Coons, in Greenbush (New York) on February 24, 1805. The couple had four children together:

• Philip Coens William Telemachus McManus (born May 30, 1805 in Wynantskill , New York; ?? † September 12, 1883 in Troy, New York)
• Jane Maria Eliza McManus (born April 6, 1807 in Brunswick, New York, † December 10, 1878)
• Nicholas Wheeler Hugh McManus (born September 30, 1808 in Brunswick, New York - † February 12, 1813)
• Robert Orson Williams McManus (born December 12, 1812 in Troy, New York, † December 11, 1885).

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 380 and 417.
• Linda S. Hudson, "Mistress of Manifest Destiny," Texas State Historical Association, 2001, p. 9.
• Kate Koon Bovey, Leon Clark Hills and Charles Carroll Koon: "Koon and Coons families of eastern New York" , Tuttle Pub. Co., 1937, p. 200.
• "Notable American Women: 1607-1950. PZ “ , Volume 2, Harvard University Press, 1971, p. 315ff.

Web links

• William McManus in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William McManus in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The McManus Family of Brunswick, New York
• William Telemachus McManus - Family Tree
• Wheeler Family Tree

Remarks

1. ↑ The family name of "Mary" is unknown.
2. ↑ The family name "Coons" comes from German and was originally Kuntz.